Pink Strings
There were a lot of things I expected after I died. Getting reincarnated into a world with crazy s-ranked ninja, giant energy mongers that can destroy a village in one attack and a few people who believe themselves gods, as the twin brother of arguably the worst Kunoichi to exist wasn't one of them. All I have to do is stay out of the academy and I'll be fine, right? Now, let's see if I can take one of the most overlooked mechanic and make it broken.
Yes, this will be strange. It won't be a crack fic, but I am taking influence from a story I found and liked. It will turn out different than that one, don't worry. I'm also going to be doing something I tried searching for, but couldn't find. Let's see what I can add to this community. Also, no Gamer this time. It can be enjoyable, but it does get boring after a while.
Chapter 1
You know, there are several things about dying that I never wanted to know. To start with, its bloody uncomfortable. Of course, being reborn is even more uncomfortable. I don't know how, nor do I want to. I won't bore you with the first six years of my life, let's just say there's a very good reason you don't remember what happens as a baby and leave it at that. Of course, there were several instances when I wanted to bash my head into a wall, most notably when I found out my twin sister was Sakura Haruno. Yes, I was reincarnated into the world of Naruto as the twin of Sakura. Incidentally, neither of our parent's look like they did in cannon. Our mother looks exactly like what Sakura will at the end of cannon. On the other hand, I am pretty much a carbon copy of our father, who also looks rather feminine, but with short black hair and golden eyes… for whatever reason.
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Originally, I hadn't planned to enter the academy, however it was impossible to argue with my dieter when she wanted something badly enough. I won't quit now that I've started, and I decided that I might as well try to do as much as I can to change the world for the better. I don't know if anything about the academy changed, but in this version, it starts at six and students graduate at twelve. It's embarrassing, but it took me two years to remember about chakra. As soon as I did, I started on the exercises I could remember. That amounted to leaf sticking, tree climbing and water walking. It didn't talk me long to complete all of them, three months in total. That was mostly due to me trying without a teacher and making sure I could stay on if I was fighting on the surface. I wasn't as good as a fully trained Shinobi, but I was better than most genin.
I'm just as smart as my sister, however I applied myself differently than she does. While we both had almost photographic memories, she only read enough to pass a bit above as the top Kunoichi, and didn't train. I read ahead; theory, history, math and much more, I read whatever I could and trained whenever I had free time, that being whenever I wasn't eating, pulled into playing, in the academy, or with my family.
The academy itself was… boring. If you imagine a normal school, replace the teachers with ninja and change the classes a bit to help create better ninja than civilian classes would. In the same vein, while It is different, however slightly, from schools in my original world, it's just so boring because I went through this already. In math I'm more advanced than some of my teachers. There wasn't any science, ninja not using science, so I'm literally the most advanced person on the planet. Most of history is covered by cannon, whatever isn't being covered by my advanced reading. There were also classes for throwing weapons, which was entirely new, along with nin, tai and genjutsu classes. They had classes for about a month teaching students how to write, before determining their handwriting as legible enough and quitting after that.
I found out a few things from all that, being that I had an amazing level of chakra control, although like my sister that meant I had less chakra overall than most clan kids. While I doubt I'll ever get to levels like Naruto, Sasuke and Kisame, I could certainly train to increase both my reserve's and regeneration speed. To that end, I started just expelling chakra from everywhere I could as fast as I could while training. I didn't even use it to strengthen my muscles, I just pushed it out and forced it to regenerate. I was careful not to go so far as to get chakra exhaustion, so as not to alert anyone to what I was doing, but that didn't mean I wasn't exhausted by the end of each training session though. I also wore weights like Lee, but mine were nowhere near as heavy as his are. I believe at this point I'm almost ready to pass the academy, even if I don't actually try to get high grades. The only reason I'm not dead last is because I'm allowing Naruto to hold that spot to preserve cannon.
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It's now the last year of the academy. I sit right next to Sasuke day after day, to keep both of our fan girls from sitting in those seats. Yes, both of us have fan girls. Sasuke because of his family being killed last year, me because of looking so much like a girl. This leads to us being relatively close friends. It wasn't what I had expected when I had been reborn, but it wasn't too bad. When I say it's the last year, it's really genin testing day.
Iruka-sensei walked into the classroom. "As you all know, today is the genin exam. I'm sure I don't have to say this, but I will anyway. The exam is split into four…" at that point I stopped listening and looked over the class. There were roughly thirty students in total, the majority from civilian families. The other seven were from known clans and the one orphan that no-one knows is from a clan, Naruto. They were all the same as in cannon, save who would become team seven, due mostly to me. Sasuke had a friend this time around, leading him to be less closed off. Naruto didn't follow Sakura around for her attention, the two of them kind of being friends and thereby me by proxy. Sakura let Naruto down easier this time, telling him why she didn't like him and he understood even if he wasn't very happy about her still being a fan girl. She was also less violent towards him, more slapping him on the back of his head whenever he got caught after a prank. Naruto also took his studies and pranks more seriously, leading him to, still, be dead last but he also wasn't just scrapping by. I keep myself just above him so I can continue to be lazy, but also not just throw cannon into a volcano to burn.
After the written test, which anyone by the end of the first year could ace, it was on to throwing. We only had to throw kunai and shuriken into a target. Sasuke went to show off by throwing all of them at once. He got 8/10, while me and Naruto had 4/10, throwing them one by one. On the written test I scored just high enough to be above Naruto. In ninjutsu, which you either pass, with or without extra credit, or fail, it's only 100% or 0. Like in the series you had the transformation, clone and substitution. I did them all perfectly, as did Naruto, only he used shadow clones as his chakra levels were too great for normal clones. He would have gotten extra credit had the teachers picked up on it, however they were too shocked over Naruto passing. I passed above him by a margin of ten.
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After the exam we had a few days to ourselves before we would be learning about our jonin sensei. During this time, I continued training. At this point I think I've broken chakra strings, you know those things puppet users use to move their puppets? Yeah, turns out they can do a bit more than just move puppets. Now when I force out my chakra, it had the tendency to turn visible if I don't pay attention. That is something that normally happens when large amounts of chakra are forced out at the same time and what I do is no different. I might have been underestimating myself about my chakra reserve's before, because I have high chunin to low jonin reserves, but it's my regeneration speed that is my best point. I regain Chakra faster than I can safely just release it. That leaves me able to use several hundred chakra strings at the same time as I regain more than it costs per second. I also wore something new for my Shinobi outfit, namely, something similar to Kakashi's, send jacket and facemask. Simple is best, after all. That said, I still think it'll be Naruto on team seven. I don't actually know what team I'll be placed in actually.
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And now is the day for team placements. The day that will shape the future of the world. And- a piece of chalk flew at me and hit me in the head.
"Shiki! Wake up! Today is team assignment day! Now, as I was saying, you are all genin of Konoha..." at that point I just decided to tune him out. I started considering if it was possible to create seals using chakra strings. I know I could, for example, hold a brush and use that to write seals, but was it possible to burn seals into things? Just then, Jiraia of the Sanin came through the window, grabbed Naruto, and jumped back out. Everyone looked to Iruka for an answer. "Yes, well, Naruto is going to be apprenticed to Jiraia instead of having a jonin sensei. Continuing on, Team Seven will be Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno and Shiki Haruno. While normally this wouldn't be allowed in a team, the Hokage believes that their jonin sensei, Kakashi Hatake, can make it work.
I stopped listening, on the outside calm and composed while on the inside I was crying out for the fiery death of cannon. NOTHING WILL BE THE SAME! Well, maybe somethings, but how will Naruto turn out now he's apprenticed to one of the Sanin? How will the rest of Team Seven? Iruka just continued on with the teams, ignorant to my mental breakdown. We waited one hour. Two hours. Three. When he finally arrived, it was to almost being tangled in chakra strings like a Turkey. He managed to avoid that, but still had a eraser land on his head.
"Well, how can I put this, my first impression of you guys is, I hate you. Meet me on the roof in ten minutes." And with that, he vanished. The other two started towards the stairs. I on the other hand, jumped through the window and walked up the wall. Kakashi looked up from his book, a bit surprised at that, but didn't say anything while we waited another eight minutes for the others to arrive. The first was, no surprise, Sasuke followed by my sister.
"Let's start with introductions. You know, your likes, dislikes, dreams for the future, things like that." We nodded at that, and he started. "My name is Kakashi Hatake. I have a few likes and a few dislikes. Dreams for the future, you're a bit young for those. Your turn pinky." My sister gained a tick mark.
"My name is Sakura Haruno. My likes are my brother and-" here she stopped and squealed while looking at Sasuke. I sighed and palmed my face. "My dislikes are Ino-pig. My dreams for the future are to protect my brother and-" she looked over to Sasuke and squealed again. Kakashi had a sweat drop the first time. It brought it's friends.
"Next, the little girl with gold eyes." I sank to my knees in despair. Sasuke snorted, and my sister burst out laughing. Kakashi looked on amused and bemused.
"Even my sensei!" I wailed. "I'm a boy. Why does everyone think I'm a girl? Shiki Haruno. My sister, Naruto and Sasuke (friends). Dislikes, people who think I'm a girl." Here I glared at him. He ignored it. "And I just want to protect my sister."
"Next, the brooding emo." Sasuke grunted. Once it was clear we wouldn't continue if he didn't talk, he started.
"Sasuke Uchiha. I have few likes and many dislikes. My dream, no, ambition is to kill a certain man." And that was all we got out of him.
"Ok, arrive at training ground 7 at 9 am for the second genin exam. The first was to see which of the academy students, if any, had what it takes. Each jonin gives another, specific to each jonin, and only 33% actually pass. I suggest not eating breakfast, else you'll puke. Now leave, I want to read in peace." With that he vanished in a swirl of leaves, presumably to his house.
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That's done, so what do you think? I couldn't get this idea out of my head, so I just wrote it down. That said, the chakra string thing is taken from The Unwoven Threads of Fate. The chakra reserves thing is something I thought up, even if I wasn't the first person to think of it. My thoughts were about Kisame, he is called the tailless tailed beast, and I believe his massive chakra reserves were from his sword eating all of them day after day, and adapting to that. Shill trained for four years similarly to that, only without something eating the chakra. Oh, also, I have ideas on things, do you want me to gender bend any, all or none of the following;
Sasuke
Gaara
Haku
I do have ideas on how that would work, and how he would end up with each of them or a harem If that's what you all prefer. I will ultimately decide how that will go, but I would like your input.
